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Sun Launches Software as a Service Blitz

"Sun made a major software as a service (SaaS) announcement
today involving the Solaris operating system. But I'm waiting for
the other shoe to drop. There's a high probability, I believe, that
Sun will rapidly expand its SaaS efforts to include the MySQL
database (near term) and potentially Ubuntu Linux (long term).
Here's why managed service providers should care.

"Short-term, promoting Solaris as a SaaS platform makes solid
business sense. The high-end operating system has been popular in
large, mission-critical deployments for such verticals as financial
services and telecommunications..."